Recently I have been trying to install some plugins on the Eclipse IDE (I was installing the CDT (C++ toolchain)) and ran into some issues. If you have an issue that looks something like this:
Problem Occurred
An error occurred while installing the items
session context was:(profile=PlatformProfile, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.engine.phases.Install, operand=null –> [R]org.eclipse.ant.ui 3.4.1.v20090901_r351, action=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.touchpoint.eclipse.actions.InstallBundleAction).
The artifact file for osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.ant.ui,3.4.1.v20090901_r351 was not found.
… then you probably want to look here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eclipse/+bug/477944
The short story is that you will want to install pde and jdt extensions first. Thankfully you’re in Linux so you can do it in one command:
sudo apt-get install eclipse-pde eclipse-jd
…bliss 
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